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- Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: Lathes
- Topic: rusty compound slide ways - a death sentence?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 75319
Re: rusty compound slide ways - a death sentence?
Something else to try would to be to indicate the ID of the jaw surfaces - e.g. mount the chuck on the spindle, turn the chuck slowly by hand, and mike the jaws to see if they are out of true, at various diameters. Also, as Harold mentioned, inspect the flats to see if they exhibit wear that could c...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Boiler welding advice.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2107
Re: Boiler welding advice.
re: boiler welding advice: as others have mentioned, this could be something to ask Ken and/or consult with a CERTIFIED welder regarding your corner layup. Looks like you have reached the stage where you really should seek expert advice. A good approach is to verify advice from people who have deep ...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 6:59 pm
- Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
- Topic: Seen this Locomotive on Ebay Today
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1484
Re: Seen this Locomotive on Ebay Today
Definitely old school, turn of the century - early 1920’s, - 3/4” or 1” scale build maybe… great restoration project maybe.The design and construction method of the pony truck is very similar to that of 1900 era miniature locomotive builds.
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 5:57 pm
- Forum: Riding Scale Railroading
- Topic: International Brotherhood of Livesteamers site - wheels and common components
- Replies: 9
- Views: 43023
Re: International Brotherhood of Livesteamers site - wheels and common components
Seems like GitHub is as good as it gets as an active repository, during code development. But seems not really designed as a front end presentation for casual browsing by end users.
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:07 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Repairing the fratured spokes on the cast iron drive wheel
- Replies: 32
- Views: 303941
Re: Repairing the fratured spokes on the cast iron drive wheel
Thanks for the photos. Most helpful understanding what you are dealing with. This would be an easy repair by the shop I mentioned in an earlier post. Maybe worth a call to Mike- he’s been doing this kind of work for a long time… Two quick followup thoughts. Sweating on a steel tire at this point won...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 12:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I may have made a mistake...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 177579
Re: I may have made a mistake...
I bought a couple of low end, end mills from Grizzly once than actually bent in half when I first used them. Brilliant looking end mill. Absolute garbage steel. Sometimes these lower cost end mills are a crap shoot because of quality issues at the source - particularily the low end ones. Looks like ...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 12:17 am
- Forum: Riding Scale Railroading
- Topic: International Brotherhood of Livesteamers site - wheels and common components
- Replies: 9
- Views: 43023
Re: International Brotherhood of Livesteamers site - wheels and common components
Hiya, welcome to Chaski, You could contact Daris Nevil ( daris@nevil.org), the current IBLS North American Secretary. Daris maintains a wiki where your work can be displayed. Their wiki can be found at IBLS.org. Go to the bottom of their main page and see sort of an index. they have around 960 pages...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 7:29 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Repairing the fratured spokes on the cast iron drive wheel
- Replies: 32
- Views: 303941
Re: Repairing the fratured spokes on the cast iron drive wheel
Recommend sending the part to Mike at Cast Iron Repair, in Smokey Point, Washington (40 miles north of Seattle). Mike is the last remaining cast iron repair shop in the U.S. Mike has been in business for 45+ years and only does cast iron welding. The guy is something of a national treasure. I’ve tak...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:56 pm
- Forum: Grand Scale Railroading
- Topic: New Backend design
- Replies: 10
- Views: 108708
New Backend design
Interesting set of valves …
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 3:44 pm
- Forum: Live Steam Marketplace
- Topic: MTC G-12 For Sale
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9109
Re: MTC G-12 For Sale
Nice looking restoration.looks like all the heavy lifting is already done on this. Decent price also. These G12’s make a nice 7.5” ga conversion. 6 volt ignition systems for gas engines were fairly common in the early 1950’s. My 1951 Farmal Cub had/has 6volt ignition. Usually pretty easy to convert ...
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Dealing with Rusty steel
- Replies: 11
- Views: 103991
Re: Dealing with Rusty steel
I’ve found, I am always better off removing the rust and mill scale (first two layers you describe) prior to welding - or refinishing. Yes, you can weld lightly rusted steel, but it’s not really a proper welding technique, and will create porosity in the weld and extra surface spatter, unless you’re...
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 4:06 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Steam engine sheet metal chimney base replacement
- Replies: 11
- Views: 27389
Re: Steam engine sheet metal chimney base replacement
Very cool project. That’s fairly thin material. So, maybe a Perfect opportunity to make up a jig and do the bends yourself. As others have said, a ball peen hammer could work wonders. Another approach would be to weld or silver solder a piece of material into the existing corroded space, and preserv...